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HALTON HOSPITAL AND WELLBEING CAMPUS TIMELINE

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Hospital And Wellbeing Campus: ● 2019-21: Design and constructi­on of car park. ● 2021-23: Constructi­on of hospital and wellbeing facility. ● 2023-24: Demolition of current acute hospital. ● 2023-24: Demolition of Brooker Centre. ● From 2024: Constructi­on of remaining campus. Remaining campus constructi­on, in phases: ● One: Estates workshops and delivery stores. ● Two: Intermedia­te care and rehabilita­tion centre. Pickup gave one of the presentati­ons on Thursday morning at Halton Hospital.

Discussing the wider NHS Halton Healthy New Town area, Ms Pickup ● ● Three: Nursing home, nursery and private residentia­l housing. ● Four: Leisure facility and community centre, arts and crafts, and housing. ● Five: Residentia­l housing and complete the developmen­t Further patient, staff and public engagement opportunit­ies: ● Tuesday, April 3, at 6pm, public meeting at Halton Hospital. ● To be confirmed, a Saturday morning in May, public meeting, Halton Hospital. ● To be confirmed, 7.30pm on a weekday in, public meeting at Halton Hospital. said she hoped that the publicity generated around the health campus might encourage ‘a developer with a social conscience’ to drive through the area and decide to develop one of the nearby large vacant buildings, with the hospital within close proximity to former government office buildings East Lane House and Castle View House.

She was assisted in answering questions from the public by Lindsey Malone, North West Boroughs Trust’s assistant director for health, Leigh Thompson, director of commission­ing and service delivery at NHS Halton Clinical Commission­ing Group, and Lucy Gardner, director of transforma­tion for the hospital.

The redevelopm­ent is part of the wider NHS Healthy New Town scheme for Halton Lea, which is one of the borough’s most deprived neighbourh­oods.

Halton Hospital opened in 1976, and the CMTC, which was previously privately owned, was brought into trust ownership in 2012.

Ms Pickup said the proposals have been drawn up following five public consultati­on events divided between

 ??  ?? Artists’ impression­s of the proposed the existing Halton General Hospital site
Artists’ impression­s of the proposed the existing Halton General Hospital site

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